The National School Lunch Program provides free- or reduced-price lunch to low-income students. Kansas children in households earning less than 130 percent of the federal poverty level are eligible for free lunches.
After 55 years of deadlines, John Marshall will write when he feels like it
Darren Rodine, an English language arts teacher at Smoky Valley Middle School, is the school district’s IMPACT teacher of the year.
Bethany College announced the first details of next year’s Messiah Festival for the Arts, which will mark the 144th consecutive performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” the longest-running rendition of this work in North America. Handel’s “Messiah” will be performed in Presser Hall on April 13.
Duane Schrag – journalist, science fiend, photographer, craftsman and traveler – died Oct. 17 in Abilene, where he had been in hospice care less than a week. The cause was metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was 69.
The meeting was called to order at 7 p.m. by Mayor Sandy Kruse.
The Physical Activity Alliance, the nation’s largest national coalition dedicated to advancing regular participation in physical activity, said the overall physical activity grade for children this year was D-, the same as in 2022 when the last such report was issued. Bethany Forseth, a researcher at the University of Kansas Medical Center, led the fitness section of the report card.